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Indiscreet · Beat 81 · permalink

Restaurant

33:12–33:29 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:1433:14Frame at 33:1933:19Frame at 33:2433:24Frame at 33:2733:27

Play from 33:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 135–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, short hair, medium build visible
  • woman in light beaded dress, dark hair styled in waves, smiling visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing, likely a waiter visible
  • multiple background diners in formal wear visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit at a table facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman gestures with her hand while smiling at the man. [frame:2]
  • The camera pulls back to show a crowded restaurant with a waiter standing near a table. [frame:3]
  • The woman continues speaking to the man, leaning slightly forward. [frame:4]
Seen
{'item': 'table with glassware and napkins', 'frame': 1}, {'item': "woman's beaded dress and gloves", 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wall sconces and arched doorways', 'frame': 3}, {'item': "man's dark suit and white shirt", 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and playful; themes: romantic negotiation, public versus private declaration, social setting as backdrop for personal drama; style notes: close two-shots alternating with wide establishing shots; high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films; formal attire suggests evening setting

A man and a woman sit at a table in a crowded restaurant, conversing closely. The woman gestures while speaking, and the camera cuts to a wider view showing other diners and a waiter in the background.

“Shall we tell them about us? Why? I want to pin you down in public.” 33:14 · “Why not?” 33:26 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Indiscreet (1931) at 33:14 (passage 33:12–33:29); US record: No renewal found

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